linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: rt28x0: remove no longer needed common/cmm_data

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Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:06:32 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Darren Salt <linux@...mustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: rt28x0: remove no longer needed common/cmm_data_2860.c

On Monday 09 November 2009 18:54:38 Darren Salt wrote:
> Your removal of cmm_data_2860.c also removes a bug fix (commit
> 0af49167b1e5ba154e90d2c454bf4624ee47df80; for background, see
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13390).

commit 0af49167b1e5ba154e90d2c454bf4624ee47df80
Author: Darren Salt <linux@...mustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Date:   Wed Oct 14 02:19:22 2009 +0100

    Staging: rt2860sta: prevent a panic when disabling when associated

while:

ommit 5d315c4baa7be30e0fb8c924a64406492b2263b8
Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 22 20:44:07 2009 +0200

    Staging: rt28x0: updates from vendor's V2.1.0.0 drivers

dropped cmm_data_2860.o from the build..

This must be one "lucky" bug looking at how things went subtly wrong
few times..  Pretty amazing..

> Is this fix present (or, better, not needed) in the code which obsoletes this
> file? (I can test if needed; just point me in the right direction wrt patches
> or repositories.)

It seems it is still needed so could you port it over to cmm_data_pci.c
(just use staging or linux-next as a base)?

Thanks.
-- 
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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